Completed Dogfish44 vs Fire Blast

Two trainers find themselves in a strange place, never seen before except perhaps in the wildest nightmares.

Arena: Spirit Spiral. An extradimensional vortex which vaguely resembles space, we battle inside the plane where the dead go, battling on a spiral-shaped rock. It's somewhat fragile, although the centre of gravity is good. Weather will be wierd - Sunlight will be very close, giving 5 radiation damage each action to non poison mons. Rain will bring a storm with it, hitting random pokémon with thunderbolts every 3 actions, from a Rank 2 Sp.atk. Sandstorm will do double damage in the arena center, and half damage when floating more than 5 m off the surface. Hail has the reverse effect.

Finding themselves somewhere between life and death, the two trainers feel they have no other option - they battle!
Issuing the challenge is Dogfish44. It is unknown what happened to the previous 43 Dogfish. Perhaps they had similar fates?

Yamask [Cizin] (M)
Nature: Quiet (Adds One (1) Rank to Special Attack; Divides Base Speed by 1.15 and gives a flat 10 point decrease in evasion, effectively adding 10 accuracy (e.g. 85 becomes 95) on an opponent’s attacks.
Type: Ghost: Ghost STAB; brief intangibility that nullifies Normal and Fighting-type attacks. Can move through walls for a brief period of time but must remain in motion. Superior senses in low light and inside dark buildings. Have no vision reduction in hazes.

Abilities:
Mummy (Innate): This Pokemon's skin has a lasting curse on it. When strucky by an opponents contact move, the curse transfers, changing the opponent's ability(ies) to Mummy for the next six (6) actions.

Zorua [Honey] (F)
Nature: Mild (Adds One (1) Rank to Special Attack; Subtracts One (1) Rank From Defense)
Type: Dark: Dark STAB; Immunity to all telepathic and telekinetic attacks, better performance in all darkened and especially twilight conditions. Can use any Dark-type attack regardless of Attraction.

Abilities:
Illusion: Whenever you send this Pokemon out it can feign the appearance of another member on your squad. If this Pokemon is damaged by a direct attack, the Illusion will cease at the end of the round. It will retain the typing and moveset of the Pokemon with Illusion. [Usage Note: PM the ref if you are sending out a Zorua or Zoroark with the info on Zorua/Zoroark and one of your squad members in a Switch=KO battle. You must use that squad member later in the battle though.]

Abilities:
Minus: (Innate) This Pokemon possesses a negative electrical charge, when a Pokemon with Plus is on the field, this Pokemon’s special attacks increase their base damage by two (2). If this Pokemon also has Plus, the damage does not stack.​

Plus: (Innate) This Pokemon possesses a positive electrical charge, when a Pokemon with Minus is on the field, this Pokemon’s special attacks increase their base damage by two (2). If this Pokemon also has Minus, the damage does not stack.

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Rotom [Samsung]

Modest: Adds * to Special Attack; Subtracts * from Attack

Type: Ghost/Electric

Ghost STAB; brief intangibility that nullifies Normal and Fighting-type attacks. Can move through walls for a brief period of time but must remain in motion. Superior senses in low light and inside dark buildings. Have no vision reduction in hazes.

Levitate(Innate): This Pokemon naturally floats above the earth when released or easily takes flight, evading Ground moves like Bulldoze, Dig, Earthquake, and Magnitude. Other Ground moves can still hit.

Lonely: Adds One (1) Rank to Attack; Subtracts One (1) Rank From Defense

Type: Fire

Fire STAB; immune to burn, 50% reduction in freeze chance, emit a low glow in dark places, takes additional damage if active open flames are exposed to a water attack. Superior senses in volcanic or brushfire areas.

Blaze: When this Pokemon’s HP is lower than 33%, the base damage of any fire attack is increased by two (2). (eg Flamethrower goes from 10 to 12, Fire Blast from 12 to 14)

Speed Boost (DW): Pokemon with this ability increase their speed as the battle progresses, boosting it one (1) stage at the end of each round at the cost of 2% of their energy. This overrides the normal drop in stats that ocurs at the end of each round (stats other than Speed are still affected).

Ghost STAB; brief intangibility that nullifies Normal and Fighting-type attacks. Can move through walls for a brief period of time but must remain in motion. Superior senses in low light and inside dark buildings. Have no vision reduction in hazes.

Poison STAB; immunity to Poison/Toxic, see and breath through smog/smokescreens/haze uninhibited. Able to use Wrap and Bind without losing focus. Superior senses in urban settings.

Levitate: This Pokemon naturally floats above the earth when released or easily takes flight, evading Ground moves like Earthquake, Level Ground, and Magnitude. Other Ground moves can still hit. (Inate)

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Dogfish44, keeping in theme with the arena sends out the Undead Yamask known as Cizin. In response, Fire Blast sends out a Combusken known as 007.
Combusken doesn't chicken out and instead moves first, striking Yamask with a Night Slash. This contact changes his ability, but he doesn't seem to mind. His real concern is Yamask's Power Split, shifting the power balance in theghost's favour.
Responding to his lowered power, 007 begins to dance, talons flying like swords. Cizin uses this chance to begin his own offensive, messing with Combusken's head from afar with Psychic, and lowering his Special Defense!
Angry, combusken goes back in for the kill, this time using Shadow Claw. Yamask uses Psychic again, and it hurts even more than before.

(The following narration has events out of order for dramatic effect.)

Bruised and battered, both Pokemon look at their foe and decide that they've done enough setting up - it's time to go in for the kill. Combusken charges angrily, flexing his talons in a malicious manner. Yamask begins to retreat, firing two Psychic Waves and a Ball of Shadow in his attempt to slow the bird's advance, but despite his best efforts 007 meets his target with great ferocity, shadow talons striking left right and center, one landing a Critical Hit.
Both Pokemon, still standing but exhausted pause for a second. Combusken's curse lifts briefly and his body starts to glow from his Blaze Ability, but it is unlikely to last.

Down on his luck, Fire Blast thinks carefully. Conventional tactics are sure to fail, so using his mighty intellect, he begins to to formulate a plan so crazy it might just work...
But doesn't. Yamask shrigs off the sand thrown in his face and finishes 007 off with a Shadow Ball, then throws the fainted body around with Psychic just to be a dick.
And so, in the world between life and death it is ironically the Ghost who returns to the realm of the living...

Good game guys, that's two TC for each of you as well as 1 EC, 1 DC and 2 MC for both Pokemon. Yamask gets a KO counter and I get 2 RC.